Originally Posted by roscot 
The review doesn't really tell us anything we did not already know, or at least suspect. Nice to have everything independently confirmed though.
This body has a lot of potential. Nice upgrade to the K10D. I am still undecided whether I will upgrade or not though.
just an observation... PopPhoto may be "independant" but they are not unbiased. As has already been mentioned by other posters, they ignored things like the NR settings and made derogatory statements. Note that they always use all of the tricks and tweaks whe they test CaNokons. A "benefit of the doubt" that they rarely afford Pentax.
So don't consider their article as "confirmation" but as just another subjective evaluation. It puts plusses and minuses in several fields, but many more tests are needed to get more general and averaged results.